On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I certainly would rather that our version matched something that's under > active maintenance someplace. But it seems like there are two good > arguments for having a copy in our tree: > > * easy accessibility for PG developers > > * at any given time we need to be using a specific "blessed" version, > so that all developers can get equivalent results. There's pretty much > no chance of that happening if we depend on distro-provided packages, > even if those share a common upstream.
Yeah, but those advantages could also be gained by putting the pgindent tree on git.postgresql.org in a separate repository. Having it in the same repository as the actual PostgreSQL code is not required nor, in my opinion, particularly desirable. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
